5/8/26 - Leftover Food, Cheese Holes, and A Fall Asleep Trick
- bribriny
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Friday 5/8/26
Celebrate:
Fintastic Friday Giving Sharks a Voice
Free Trade Day
Iris Day
Military Spouse Appreciation Day
National Coconut Cream Pie Day
National Give Someone a Cupcake Day
National Have a Coke Day
National Public Gardens Day
National Student Nurses Day
No Socks Day
Provider Appreciation Day
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War.
Victory in Europe Day
World Ovarian Cancer Day
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
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New in Theaters this weekend
The Sheep Detectives - Hugh Jackman and talking sheep! Also starring Emma Thompson, Molly Gordon, Conleth Hill, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Hong Chau, Nicholas Galitzine, Nicholas Braun, Tosin Cole, and Mandeep Dhillon.
Mortal Kombat II - starring Karl Urban, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jessica McNamee, Damon Herriman, Tadanobu Asano, Lewis Tan, and Tati Gabrielle.
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour - directed with James Cameron.
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Here's one to get you talking from The Washington Post.
To eat or not to eat: The great Airbnb leftover food debate.
Andrew McCauley’s personal kitchen is divided. On one side are the items purchased at traditional supermarkets in his New York neighborhood. On the other are his “Airbnb foods.”
“My family is always grossed out by it,” said McCauley, who occasionally comes back with grub salvaged from his vacation rental properties.
They’re missing out. This week’s Airbnb menu features baked lobster macaroni and cheese and pau bhaji.
“Nobody wanted it,” McCauley said of the Mumbai street food left by an Indian visitor, “so I took it.”
Vacation rentals often contain a culinary Little Free Library filled with foodstuffs left by guests who may have miscalculated their appetite for cooking or consuming. Hosts and cleaning crews who discover edible odds and ends in the property’s fridges and pantries have to figure out what do with the remnants: toss them, leave them, eat them or donate them.
Their food waste, however, can become a windfall for people who have no qualms about grazing on strangers’ groceries.
“If it’s been opened, it’s most likely been touched, and you can’t tell if it’s been tampered with, so I’ll toss that,” said Sofia Kaiser, who rents the house her grandfather built near Fort Worth. “But everything that has not been opened, I always keep.” (I'm in agreement with this rule)
Some donate the items to a food kitchen.
One host posts clips of his donation creations on social media, and one guest recognized her serendipitous contribution.
“The woman who saw the video of the peaches was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, that’s what happened to my peaches.’”
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Swiss cheese has holes, right? Well....
As modern milking methods became too hygienic and eliminated natural hay dust, which acts as a "nucleation point" for bubble formation, Switzerland authorities are now allowing cheese producers to make fake holes..legally!
Not really, they add hay particles to make the holes to keep the traditional appearance of Swiss Cheese.
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Having trouble falling asleep?
Here's a simple mental trick that can qiet your mind.
The technique is called “cognitive shuffling,” and it’s a mental exercise that gives your brain something neutral and mildly engaging to focus on, so it can drift toward sleep instead of churning. Here’s what to know—and how to tell if it might work for you.
Once you go to bed—following your normal routine—pick a word that doesn’t carry much meaning to you and is five to 12 letters long. “The word should be emotionally neutral, so not something tied to stress or strong feelings.” Like blanket, garden, bedtime, and kitchen.
With your word in hand, work through it letter by letter, generating as many unrelated words as you can think of for each one. For example, if you chose “bedtime,” your shuffling might look like this: B: butterfly, basket, bagel. E: envelope, Egypt, emerald. (In practice, you’d keep going until you run out of ideas.) “The key is keeping them unrelated.
Each time you name a new word, spend a few moments visualizing it.
The technique also gives you something to do besides tossing and turning as you watch the minutes tick by. “It provides an alternative to lying in bed ruminating.”
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MIT researchers have discovered that rice seeds can "hear" the specific vibrations of rain. When the seeds detect the sound of falling droplets, it triggers a chemical reaction that "wakes them up" and causes them to sprout faster.
Our food is alive...I've seen movies!!!!
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Joey Fatone and Lance Bass are officially teaming up to host a new mixology competition on E! called Cocktail Wars. It’s basically nostalgia meets high-end bartending, and it’s set to be the "guilty pleasure" hit of the summer.
From the presser.
Cocktail Wars pits America's buzziest mixologists against each other in a lively, high-stakes showdown for $10,000 per episode. Hosted by Joey Fatone and Lance Bass, who are joined by a series of celebrities and an expert judge, each episode features a fast, fiery battle of skill, creativity, humor, and flair. From playful flavor combinations to eye-catching technique, the focus is on having a good time, taking risks, and serving up drinks with personality. Each shake, stir, and splash could be the winning touch or the one that sends them home. It's a cocktail competition where the vibes are high, the drinks are strong, and the bragging rights are everything.
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Today is No Socks Day. What are people saying about not wearing socks.
Personally, I wear them whenever I wear shoes and don't like not having them on. I feel my feet get sweaty and it just feels gross. (not going to even get into the socks and sandals debate)
Reddit was an interesting dive into some interesting questions...various answers were,
Outside socks inside no socks
I hate the feeling of being barefoot, so always at least socks.
Death to foot prisons
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Mother’s Day remains the busiest day of the year for phone calls in the U.S., with roughly 122 million calls placed on that Sunday.
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